by Wole Soyinka · A&C Black · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780413695505
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«Death and the King's Horseman» is the play by Wole Soyinka, published by A&C Black, in paperback (89 pages, in English).
In the Yoruba city of Oyo, in 1946, Chief Elesin must perform a ritual that requires him to accompany the deceased king to the world of the ancestors; the British officer Simon Pilkings tries to prevent it. Based on a real episode, Soyinka builds a drama about the clash of cultures, conflicting loyalties and tragic decisions.
1998 edition within Methuen Student Editions, with introduction, chronology, an interview with Soyinka and notes by Jane Plastow.
Intended for literature and theatre students who need an annotated edition with supporting material to study Soyinka's work.
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs. He has also written two translated works and many articles and short stories for newspapers and periodicals. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence".
